School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow
- Location:
- Strangsmill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Richard Rellis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 222
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- (continued from previous page)The woman did so & the beggar-woman placed it on the fire. All this time the the changeling was very quiet and didn't put a míog out of him. Soon the griddle was red hot. The beggar-woman grasped the lad in the cradle & put him down on the red griddle. The changling began howling & screaming & begging for mercy. the beggar-woman told him she'd keep him there unless he brought back from the rath nearby the child that was stolen. He then told the mother to go to the fort and that she'd find her own child under a "bucky"-briar. She did so and came back rejoicing. When she came to the house she found the changeling had vanished & the beggar-woman told her that when she took her eyes off him that he vanished up the chimney. The husband & wife baked six griddle cakes of oaten bread in thanksgiving to the old woman.
The beggar woman was always sure of a welcome in that house ever after
- Collector
- R. Rellis
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Dunkitt, Co. Kilkenny
